In Chancery by John Galsworthy read by Peter Dann Part 2/2 | Full Audio Book

In Chancery by John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
Genre(s): Family Life

Read by: Peter Dann in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 26 - Dartie versus Dartie
00:22:45 - 27 - The challenge
00:33:40 - 28 - Dinner at James'
00:46:35 - 29 - Death of the dog Balthasar
00:55:57 - 30 - Timothy stays the rot
01:09:35 - 31 - Progress of the chase
01:21:47 - 32 - 'Here we are again!'
01:42:27 - 33 - Outlandish night
01:48:27 - 34 - Soames in Paris
02:03:10 - 35 - In the web
02:10:41 - 36 - Richmond Park
02:25:28 - 37 - Over the river
02:28:56 - 38 - Soames acts
02:35:30 - 39 - A summer day
02:49:42 - 40 - A summer night
02:57:39 - 41 - James in waiting
03:04:48 - 42 - Out of the web
03:23:32 - 43 - Passing of an age
03:47:05 - 44 - Suspended animation
04:01:37 - 45 - Birth of a Forsyte
04:16:17 - 46 - James is told
04:27:41 - 47 - His

For a late Victorian Briton, to be 'in chancery' could mean literally to be involved in a law suit (such as, for example, a divorce suit) being heard in a Court of Chancery, or, more broadly, to be trapped in any awkward predicament almost impossible to untangle (as law suits heard in the Court of Chancery often tended to be).In this, the second volume of The Forsyte Saga, wealthy lawyer Soames Forsyte struggles to free himself from a situation he finds almost impossibly awkward, given the divorce laws of his time. Though it is now a dozen or so years since he and his wife Irene split up, they have never divorced. Soames is now desperate to have a son. What can he do? He knows that Irene is now keeping company with his cousin Jolyon. Can he persuade her to come back to him? Or should he, instead, take the risky course of attempting to prove to the world that the woman he still aches after is an adulteress, publicly shame her and divorce her, and marry a pretty French woman half his age in hopes that she will bear him the son he craves?(Summary by Peter Dann)